Space Exploration

The first vehicles to fly under NASA’s new lunar delivery initiative will aim to be the first commercial spacecraft to land softly on another celestial body

Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

A brain drain from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory could pose problems for the space agency’s ambitious science plans

Establishing a permanent Mars settlement in the foreseeable future makes little sense. The weakest reason for doing it is also the strongest—and not in a good way

The International Space Station—larger than a football field and weighing almost 450 tons—must eventually fall to Earth. It’s a delicate, dangerous process

SpaceX’s Starship—the most powerful rocket ever built—experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” in its otherwise successful second full-scale launch, triggering a federal investigation into what went wrong

Reproducing in space is just one of many reasons we should delay settlements beyond Earth

Images of sari-wearing space scientists in India remind us that research is global and cultural dress should be welcome in the workplace

NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid nicknamed Dinky, only to discover an even smaller space rock orbiting it

NASA’s Lucy mission is starting its science studies way ahead of schedule

Increasing NASA’s budget would ease pressure and allow it to dream even bigger

A Stanford researcher is growing crystals on the International Space Station and electronics to withstand the extreme environments of Venus.